Publications
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Newsletters: a weekly summary of news about Bitcoin and LN development.
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Blog posts: Occasional updates and reference material from the Optech team.
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Podcast Episodes: Audio discussions of our newsletters.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #397 Recap Podcast
Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Matt Corallo, Gregory Sanders, and Sebastian van Staa to discuss Newsletter #397.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #397
This week’s newsletter includes our regular sections describing changes to services and client software, announcing new releases and release candidates, and summarizing recent changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #396 Recap Podcast
Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Jonathan Harvey-Buschel to discuss Newsletter #396.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #396
This week’s newsletter describes a collision-resistant hash function using Bitcoin Script and summarizes continued discussion of Lightning Network traffic analysis. Also included are our regular sections with announcements of new releases and release candidates and descriptions of notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #395 Recap Podcast
Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Jon McAlpine, Antoine Poinsot, Mike Casey, and Ethan Heilman to discuss Newsletter #395.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #395
This week’s newsletter describes a standard for verifying VTXOs across different Ark implementations and links to a draft BIP for expanding the miner-usable nonce space in the block header’s
nVersionfield. Also included are our regular sections with descriptions of discussions about changing consensus, announcements of new releases and release candidates, and summaries of notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software. -
Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #394 Recap Podcast
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Craig Raw and Fabian Jahr to discuss Newsletter #394.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #394
This week’s newsletter looks at a proposed BIP for including supplemental information with output script descriptors. Also included are our regular sections summarizing popular questions on the Bitcoin Stack Exchange, announcing new releases and release candidates, and describing recent changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #393 Recap Podcast
Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Misha Komarov, Erik De Smedt, and arbedout to discuss Newsletter #393.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #393
This week’s newsletter summarizes a discussion about recent OP_RETURN usage and describes a protocol to enforce covenant-like spending conditions without consensus changes. Also included are our regular sections describing recent changes to services and client software, announcing new releases and release candidates, and summarizing recent merges to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #392 Recap Podcast
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Gustavo Flores Echaiz are joined by Sebastian Falbesoner and Oleksandr Kurbatov to discuss Newsletter #392.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #392
This week’s newsletter summarizes discussion of improving worst-case silent payment scanning performance and describes an idea for enabling many spending conditions in a single key. Also included are our regular sections with announcements of new releases and release candidates and descriptions of notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #391 Recap Podcast
Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Toby Sharp, Chris Hyunhum Cho, Jonas Nick, and Antoine Poinsot to discuss Newsletter #391.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #391
This week’s newsletter links to work on a constant-time parallelized UTXO database, summarizes a new high-level language for writing Bitcoin Script, and describes an idea to mitigate dust attacks. Also included are our regular sections summarizing discussion about changing Bitcoin’s consensus rules, announcing new releases and release candidates, and describing notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #390 Recap Podcast
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Gustavo Flores Echaiz are joined by Liam Eagen to discuss Newsletter #390.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #390
This week’s newsletter summarizes a more efficient approach to garbled circuits and links to an LN-Symmetry update. Also included are our regular sections with selected questions and answers from the Bitcoin Stack Exchange, announcements of new software releases and release candidates, and summaries of notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #389 Recap Podcast
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by René Pickhardt to discuss Newsletter #389.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #389
This week’s newsletter links to a paper on the study of payment channel networks. Also included are our regular sections describing recent updates to services and client software, announcing new releases and release candidates, and summarizing notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #388 Recap Podcast
Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Bruno Garcia to discuss Newsletter #388.
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #388
This week’s newsletter links to a discussion of incremental mutation testing in Bitcoin Core and announces deployment of a new BIP process. Also included are our regular sections announcing new releases and release candidates, and describing notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure projects.
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